Consultant Cardiologist

This is a General Cardiology Consultant post. The remit of the postholder will be to work within the multi-disciplinary team providing and further developing care for patients and to provide and develop in-patient and out-patient cardiac services to the Trust's. In addition, the individual will be required to play an active role in the general workload of the Care Group while having a significant commitment to teaching and training of junior staff. There maybe a contribution to the acute medical rota.

The post will be based at the Princess Royal University Hospital and the proposed Job Plan (10 PAs) is attached. This is subject to review within 3 months of the postholder commencing in post. In-patient duties presently consist of 1 joint rota carried out on a weekly basis (Cardiology Consultant of The Week). This supports the 20 bedded cardiology ward, acute Cardiology admissions and acute referrals as well as an advice and guidance service and referral triage for General Practitioners. The Cardiology Consultant of the Week (CCOW) commitment is for a 1:7 rota, which is job planned and does not attract on call supplement. There is a commitment to undertake routine job planned work on Saturdays or Sundays as part of the total job planned PAs.

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts, with a turnover of £1.8bn per annum - and we are delighted you are considering a career with us. Our teams provide services out of five hospitals across South East London and Kent, namely King's College Hospital, the Princess Royal University Hospital, Orpington Hospital, Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup, and Beckenham Beacon. We employ nearly 14,000 staff, who together treat over 1.5 million patients every year. We provide a full range of local and specialist services, and our teams are nationally and internationally recongised for our work in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, cardiac, haemato-oncology, fetal medicine, stroke, major trauma, and emergency medicine. Our Strong Roots, Global Reach strategy, published in 2021, sets out our BOLD vision, and commitment towards: Brilliant People Outstanding care Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do.